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hours, british travellers try desperately to get back to the uk. documents released at the high court suggest there was a controversial a formal government apology after failing to commemorate properly more than 100,000 black and asian people who died fighting for the british empire during the first world war. nasa s perseverance rover makes breathable oxygen on the surface of mars. # bye bye, baby, baby, goodbye.# and the lead singer of the bay city rollers, les mckeown, has died at the age of 65. president biden has opened a major global climate summit with a call to other world leaders to step up to the challenge. joe biden pledged to cut us emissions by at least half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade, but he warned his country couldn t take action alone. he told world leaders that scientists were calling this the decisive decade for tackling climate change and action was needed now. this graph shows how global carbon emissions have risen over the years. t ....
hello and welcome, if you re watching in the uk, or around the world. several people have been killed, and scores are missing, after a glacier broke free in northern india and smashed into a hydroelectric dam. one witness said a wall of water and rock sped down the river so quickly there was no time to sound the alarm. a massive rescue operation is taking place, and survivors have been pulled from under the mud and rubble. it happened in uttarakhand state on the dhauliganga river in the district of chamoli. our delhi correspondent rajini vaidyanthan reports. this dramatic footage shows when the nanda devi glacier in the himalayas burst on sunday morning. as water gushed down the valley, damage and destruction. translation: i witnessed something that looked like a scene from a bollywood film. i ve never seen anything like it. about 50 100 people were running for their lives, but couldn t be saved. and they were engulfed by the river. the situation here is still dangero ....
two teenagers have been arrested in manchester in connection with the texas synagogue siege the british hostage taker was a man from blackburn. the government admits it hasn t done enough to protect the uk from the impacts of climate change. and today came at the opposite of a birthday present, the £159 licence fee that funds nearly three quarters of the bbc budget will be frozen for two years. the bbc wanted the fee to rise to over £180 by the end of this settlement. instead, it will remain fixed at £159 until april 202a. that is more money in the pockets of pensioners, families, who are struggling to make ends meet. labour says this government wants to destroy the bbc because it doesn t like its journalism. is the licence fee really at the heart of the cost of living crisis? or is this really about their long standing vendetta against the bbc? now it is part of operation red meat, to save the prime minister from becoming dead meat. the culture secretary had claimed yes ....
government is investing in now and we are taking the tough decisions necessary. statutory sick pay is worth £3 a week less in real terms compared to at the start of the pandemic and millions of workers are being forced to choose between isolating or putting food on the table. in germany, 100% of workers salaries are covered by sick pay, whereas in the uk it is a pitiful 19%. so, i asked the prime minister if he thought earning £250,000 from his second job was chickenfeed, how on earth does he expect working people to survive on £96 a week when they get sick? and if he agrees that many lives and livelihoods could be saved by increasing sick pay, will he commit here and now to raising it to the level of the real living wage? mr speaker, i thank the honourable gentleman, of course, as he knows one of the first things we did when covid struck was to make sure that statutory sick pay was payable from day one, so it is up to 75% more generous if you need to self isolate. ....